Sterling Silver Equestrian Trophy “The Lovley Night Hurdle” 1959

8 inches tall

8.5 inches wide

5.7 inches base to top of urn without lid

5 inches opening

Stamped Ensko NY Sterling

This is a Trophy for winning the “Lovely Night Hurdle” in August of 1959.

New York Times:

 Langton Breeze First by 18 Lengths; CASTE RUNNER-UP IN HURDLES TEST Langton Breeze Winner at Saratoga — Alberta Pride Is Destroyed After Fall

By Joseph C. Nichols  Aug. 28, 1959

SARATOGA SPRINGS, N. Y., Aug. 27 – “Langton Breeze of the Tower Hill Farm was all alone at the finish of the Lovely Night Hurdle Handicap today. The feature event attracted only four jumpers and only three completed the course of about two miles…….”

Tower Hill Farms is the estate that belonged to the son of Isidor and Ida Straus. In 1888 Isidor and Nathan Straus acquired a percentage of R.H. Macy and Company, and by 1896 they had gained full ownership of the department store. Isidor served for a short time in the U.S. House of Representatives (1894–95) and in later years engaged in philanthropic works. He and his wife, Ida, perished aboard the ocean liner Titanic in 1912. (Although offered a seat in a lifeboat, Isidor refused to disobey the order of women and children first. Ida, in turn, would not leave her husband, reportedly saying, “Where you go, I go.”) Their son Jesse Isidor Straus became president of Macy’s in 1919 and was succeeded in that office by his son Jack Isidor Straus, who served as company president from 1939 to 1956.  After the Death on the Titanic, their son built the Tower Hill Farm in 1929. In 1949 James and Dorothy McConnell purchased the estate from the Straus family and has remained in the family until today.